Tech Lead — DevX & AI

Xsolla
Montreal, Canada, Serbia
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Mentoring","Teamwork","Problem-solving"]

Lead and ship the Shop Builder DevX and AI developer surface, coordinating across payments, auth, live ops, and catalog. You mentor a small squad, contribute production code, and translate architecture decisions into sprint plans, balancing speed and correctness. This hands-on leadership role focuses on MCP server, CLI, SDK, docs, and developer tooling in a headless storefront context.

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Xsolla
Xsolla
4 months ago

Tech Lead — DevX & AI

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Job Summary

Lead and ship the Shop Builder DevX and AI developer surface, coordinating across payments, auth, live ops, and catalog. You mentor a small squad, contribute production code, and translate architecture decisions into sprint plans, balancing speed and correctness. This hands-on leadership role focuses on MCP server, CLI, SDK, docs, and developer tooling in a headless storefront context.
Location: Montreal, Canada, Serbia
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Drive the delivery of the Shop Builder developer surface: MCP server, CLI and local dev environment, public SDK, documentation pipeline, sandbox and preview environments, deploy and versioning path.
  • •Lead and mentor a team of three engineers — setting technical direction within the squad, running code reviews, and ensuring consistent engineering quality.
  • •Own cross-team coordination: identify and pull inbound API capabilities from payments, auth, live ops, and catalog teams; unblock dependencies; manage integration timelines.
  • •Actively contribute to implementation — you ship production code alongside the team, particularly on the most critical and complex components.
  • •Partner with the Principal Engineer to translate architecture decisions into sprint-level execution plans and realistic timelines.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:MedicalDentalVisionPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a tech lead, staff, or senior lead role driving delivery across a team.
  • •Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js, with experience shipping production APIs, CLIs, or SDKs to external developers.
  • •Hands-on experience building CLI tools and developer-facing workflows: command design, config file formats, local dev loops, deploy commands, and error messages that actually help.
  • •Solid understanding of REST API design principles, SDK ergonomics, and what makes a developer experience work.
  • •Cloud-native experience: CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and deployment automation on AWS or GCP.
Experience:6+ yearsGamingHeadless commerceDeveloper tools
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipMentoringTeamworkProblem-solving
Tech Stack:JavaScriptTypeScriptNode.jsRESTDockerKubernetesAWSGCPSDKCLI

Company Brief

Xsolla
Provides payment, billing, distribution and commerce solutions for video game developers and publishers, enabling in-game purchases, store infrastructure, fraud protection, and global payment processing to monetize games across platforms and regions.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, United States
Founded: 2005
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